Public Sector organisations admit to poor attitudes towards treatment of confidential data / Public Technology, 9 Sep 2008
http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17243
"62% of public sector IT decision-makers are unaware of the possible introduction of data breach notification legislation. Research from Clearswift has found that public sector organisations are not dedicating enough time and resource to Information Assurance (IA), putting them perilously at risk of suffering from data breaches.
According to the first piece of research, conducted by Clearswift and IA08, the government’s Information Assurance Event, (“IA and Organisational Responsibilities in the Public Sector, 2008”), 53 per cent of respondents - all of whom either work within or for a public sector department - felt that their organisation didn’t spend enough time on IA issues. At the same time, a separate Clearswift research report (“Worldwide Data Loss Prevention Trends, 2008”) found that almost one in five (19 per cent) of UK IT decision-makers in the public sector admitted to having experienced at least one incidence of data loss in the last 12-18 months."

Clear Swift report news release http://www.clearswift.com/news/item.aspx?ID=1534